HARRY LAUDER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 7

HARRY LAUDER

US COMEDIAN IN WELLINGTON . OPINION ON THE: WAR ■ ,■ A. / .• Ho, Harry'' called a voice from harf, as • the Warrimoo drew up • berth on- her arrival from Sydjstorday. ; • ■ ■■ i rl" said the only Harry. Lauder, Jimmy—little Jimmy. Hoo aro Idiep—smooking a pipe, tool Glad ' yo, boy I" I in that greteing there was all ;en'iality . and vitality which has 1 to' make the little man- popular' jhout three continents. The lian is distinctly. Glasgow Scotch ie, .burly, and thick set, his friend:e rosy with health.'. Ho wanted :ow all about the war news, and flighted'to learn of the departure i English troops for the Continent, he manner in which Lord Kitchad arranged, the, grim, silent ern.tion. Even a comedian may have pimbiist on the war, and Harry >r thinks that the manner : in England has swiftly mobilised prces is one of tho most Temark'eats of war. in the history of the i, and one that gives a good line r actions when at grips with the 3 see, seem' I conldna' go ma'sel, lune the next best thing—l've sent on. - He's a lieutenant ■in • the e and Sutherland Highlanders Terals —yo ken, and he cam' oot tab he colonies wi' me. But in Mele the ither day he got ' a cable,' two words: "Mobilising—return.", he left Adelaide on Thursday last his duty by his country, God bless ph the talk turned on his future nentS, Lauder said he-was going nerica ! after New Zealand. . He sen there six times, and this visit be his sevonth. .-. ypu're not caught' by the Ger- ?" ventured a'voice. . y re, : but if they .catch me, I'll just 'I Love a ..in German to ' and I'll, bet you onytliing ye like I let me .go !" With .the. wiy lit ■lth'him one would not be at all sed if such a dereliction of duty lecorded against our.Teutonic foes. Lauder, confesses to having had ui' time" in Australia; .The audi-, there were just as amenable to his ous humour as they were in' Engir America. The world was waiti ir siinnlo melodies with a catchy n, and" they could not get enough m. He had not had the temerity T a war song, as, as far as tew, the English troops had'' hot fighting yet, but Mrs, Lauder, "a i buddie," said that Harry . had >.n an Australian song. Mr. Lauder ised. to his wifels ability to express other than on his •' talent _as a writer, but he was-ho politician ilf, except in his own houso, and there he was not' but "a subordinate member of 1 ths iet,V so to speak, ;He looked for- , with pleasure'to his tour through > Zealand, where he understood weto qnito a number of Scotch e and gramophones. ring the evening Mr. Lauder, was d on by Mr. Foster, president of Scottish Society, who was accomi by "a kilted piper, , and others ictively decorated with .the em-: of their race,'. who called to give granger greeting. It was arranged and then that Mr. Lauder would 4 a' social to be given by the .y in 'his honour on his ■ return' the south. ■ The popular comedian lis company' leave this, evening for •Jin—in New- Zealand's ' "land o' "' ; ,"V